Joachim Albertini or Gioacchino Albertini (30 November 1748,

Pesaro Pesaro () is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Marche, capital of the Province of Pesaro e Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. According to the 2011 census, its population was 95,011, making it the second most populous city in the Marche, ...

27 March 1812,

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) was an Italian-born composer, who spent most of his life in Poland. His

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

' (''Don Giovanni or The Libertine Penalized'') was performed in the 1780s with both Italian and Polish

libretti A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...

Works

Stage

* ''La cacciatrice brillante'',

intermezzo In music, an intermezzo (, , plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term ha ...

, libretto by G. Mancinelli, Rome, Teatro di Tordinona, February 1772 * ''Przyjazd pana'', polish comedy, Warsaw, 1781 * ''Don Juan albo Ukarany libertyn'' (''Don Juan, or The Libertine Punished''), opera in three acts, libretto by

Giovanni Bertati Giovanni Bertati (10 July 1735 – 1 March 1815) was an Italian librettist. Bertati was born in Martellago, Italy. In 1763, he wrote his first libretto, ''La morte di Dimone'' ("The Death of Dimone"), set to music by Antonio Tozzi. Two years later ...

,''Grove''. According to ''Dizionario Biografico Treccani'', the author of the libretto is unknown translation by Wojciech Bogusławski, Warsaw, 23 February 1783 * ''Circe und Ulysses'',

opera seria ''Opera seria'' (; plural: ''opere serie''; usually called ''dramma per musica'' or ''melodramma serio'') is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to abo ...

, libretto by , Hamburg, 1786 * ''Virginia'', opera seria, libretto by

Luigi Romanelli Luigi Romanelli (July 21, 1751March 1, 1839) was an Italian opera librettist. Romanelli was born in Rome. He wrote tens of librettos, most of them for operas to be performed at La Scala in Milan. In the same city he was professor of declamation ...

, Rome,

Teatro delle Dame The Teatro delle Dame, also known as the Teatro Alibert (its original name), was a theatre in Rome built in 1718 and located on what is now the corner of Via D'Alibert and Via Margutta. In the course of its history it underwent a series of reconstr ...

, 7 January 1786
Italian libretto
* ''Scipione Africano'', opera seria, libretto by

Nicolò Minato Count Nicolò Minato (b. Bergamo, ca. 1627; d. Vienna, 28 February 1698) was an Italian poet, librettist and impresario. His career can be divided into two parts: the years he spent at Venice, from 1650 to 1669, and the years at Vienna, from 1669 un ...

, Rome, 1789 * ''La vergine vestale'', opera seria, libretto by Michelangelo Prunetti, Rome, Teatro delle Dame, 2 January 1803
Italian libretto
* ''Kapelmajster polski'' (''The Polish Kapellmeister''), intermezzo in one act, libretto by L. A. Dmuszewski, Warsaw, 28 October 1808

Other works

* Missa solemnis, 28 August 1782 * Offertorium * ''Kantata na rocznicę elekeji Króla'' (''Cantata on the Anniversary of the King’s Election''), 7 September 1790 * Symphony in D, 1791 * Septet, 25 April 1806

References

Bibliography

* Barbara Chmara-Żaczkiewicz, "Albertini, Gioacchino", ''

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...

'', Second Edition (London: Macmillan, 2001). .

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